Mustek has warned that global AI infrastructure expansion is driving shortages that will persist into next year.

Researchers discover rare periods of a few thousands years when climate unexpectedly awoke from slumber

During the ”snowball Earth” period about 700m years ago, Earth’s climate shut down. The planet was encased in ice and insulated from seasonal variations: spring, summer, autumn and winter all stopped. Or at least that was the theory.

Recent examination of some ancient rocks from the west...

South Africa’s draft AI policy framework is headed to cabinet and could be gazetted for public comment in March.

Payments firm Stripe is reportedly considering an acquisition of PayPal or parts of the digital payments pioneer.

Users were unhappy about plans for age verification to require facial or ID scans.

While the use of the N-word may not have been intentional, some with the condition agree that doesn’t make it acceptable

It was an incident that sparked a furore: during Sunday’s Bafta ceremony Tourette syndrome (TS) activist John Davidson made several outbursts, including shouting the N-word as actors Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan were presenting a prize on stage.

Among others to comment...

Standard Bank has spent R1-billion rebuilding its business banking platform, giving clients more real-time controls.

The UK’s data watchdog said the failings meant children could be exposed to harmful material online.

Grace Bell says she is ‘the happiest I’ve ever been in my life’ after giving birth to baby Hugo in UK first

A baby boy named Hugo is the first child to be born in the UK to a mother with a womb transplant from a dead donor.

Hugo Powell was delivered at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea hospital in London weighing 6lb 13oz, after his mother, Grace Bell, received a transplanted womb from someone...

Wold Newton, East Yorkshire: On a dreary day in a nondescript field, I visit the site where a 4.56 billion-year-old bit of space rock came to Earth

On a low rise, beyond a screen of trees, behind a small holiday park in the Yorkshire Wolds, a brick obelisk stands incongruously at the edge of an otherwise nondescript field. It bears a plaque inscribed as follows: “Here, on this spot, Decr....

For a long time fat was seen simply as an inert yellow substance wrapping around our bodies, but now that’s changing. Scientists are beginning to understand that our fat is actually intricate and dynamic, constantly in conversation with the rest of the body. It’s now even considered by some to be an organ in its own right. To find out more about the complex role fat plays in our health, Ian...

Vulnerable young people, partners of drug users and victims of sexual violence also among those afflicted in world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic

The night her baby’s heart stopped, Clare* blamed herself. Had she taken her out in the cold too much? Had she damaged her lungs by drinking iced water when she was pregnant? She fixated on Andi’s tiny chest, willing it to suck in air, rushing...